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...small minority of parties. Harvard undergraduate publication Freeze Magazine has had its own share of problems with Google advertising, according to Windsor G. Hanger ’10, former executive editor of the magazine. She said she remembered having frequent problems with an ad for the University of Phoenix being displayed by Adwords on Freeze’s site, which is geared toward Harvard students. “The University of Phoenix has no benefit from being on our site and the ad’s irrelevance decreased the overall quality our the site,” Hanger said. Because...
...than an old flame? "Facebook makes it easier for you to take that first step of finding someone again," explains Rainer Romero-Canyas, a psychology research scientist at Columbia University. "It has finally provided a way for people to reach out to someone without fear of rejection." The Boston Phoenix even coined a term, retrosexuals, for people who are taking the plunge into recycled love...
...Phoenix THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS The Secret Service says it's not alarmed, but plenty of other people are. Protesters outside two of President Obama's recent events, in New Hampshire and Arizona, have arrived carrying guns, including a Phoenix man toting a pistol and an AR-15 assault rifle. Carrying visible weapons is legal in both states, and the protesters were not in the high-security zone around the President. But the head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence called the incidents "craziness," especially amid the combustible debate over health-care reform...
Then there's the other end of the spectrum: the cities where houses for sale look inexpensive compared with rentals. The top 10 metro areas on that list are Cleveland, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Cincinnati and, in California, Oakland, Riverside, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Jose. An important caveat: those cities' 15-year price-to-rent ratios include the bubble years. Does Las Vegas appear cheap? Sure. The current ratio there is 14.6, significantly below where it's been over the past 15 years (19.3). But that average has been influenced by the go-go years. Exclude them...
Obama, President Barack •a dozen people show up at Phoenix event of brandishing guns - including someone who says he's carrying a semi-automatic assault rifle "because I can do it. In Arizona, I still have some freedoms" - and the Secret Service just shrugs •report on bipolarity...